ROCKPORT — Architect Toshiko Mori, a longtime…
Work
In response to the depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section extended the moratorium on commercial fishing for…
HEALTH CARE IN KNOX and WALDO COUNTIES
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital will hold community forums in Belfast, Rockland and Searsport, Dec. 14…
The O’Brien’s take on the movie: “Weave it, and someone will eventually come and buy it”
For repeat customers of Diane and Wally O'Brien of Lincolnville, it's no mystery who the weaver of Sleepy Hollow Rag Rugs is. But for others, it's a surprise.
Since he retired from education…
Candy from every era for every age
CAMDEN — Handy, dandy, it's as sweet as candy. No Christmas stocking is complete without a heaping helping of sweets. We're talking…
BRUNSWICK — Tom Peaco, executive director of the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed president of the Midcoast…
POSSIBLE SCAM
BELFAST — The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce is reporting it has had several phone calls regarding an email that has been circulating and received by Chamber members, purporting to be from the…
ROCKPORT — Let’s Go! Knox County awarded Jared Todd, the second-grade teacher at Appleton Village School, with a Redy Award for his…
Seven statewide Maine educational and healthcare projects named
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last month that the USDA is investing $23.4 million in 75…
Maine Lighthouse Museum and Friends of Flying Santa...
ROCKLAND — It’s a tradition that began on Dec. 25, 1929, when Capt. William Wincapaw of Friendship loaded his plane with a dozen packages containing newspapers, magazines, coffee, candy and other…
CRUSHING — The Cushing Community School held its annual Harvest Fest on Nov. 17. All first-grade through fourth-grade students performed in…
ROCKLAND - The Maine Department of Labor’s Rockland CareerCenter and its…
ROCKPORT – Pen Bay Medical Center has added Dr. Jessica Rhoades, Au.D.CCC-A, as a new audiologist with Speech and Hearing and Pediatric PT/…
ACADIA HOSPITAL
BANGOR – Acadia Hospital announced that Dr. Mark Robert Allen has been hired as the hospital’s medical director for Pediatric Inpatient…
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE LOWEST SINCE 2002
The preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4.3 percent for October was little changed from 4.4 percent in September and down…
The Maine Preservation Honor Awards this year recognized 16 projects from around the state, including the Unity Food Hub, in Unity. Maine…
Ocean State Job Lot is beginning its annual Three Square Meals food fund drive. Customers at all Ocean State Job Lot stores are…
Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s 4-H Club
Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s 4-H Club, the Aldermere Achievers, have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. On Nov. 18, the club…
Coastal Healthcare Alliance
ROCKLAND — Pen Bay Healthcare and Waldo County Healthcare have been notified by the Department of Health and Human Services that the…
Meeting tonight
CAMDEN — The Camden Planning Board convenes tonight to talk about the ordinances guiding short-term rentals, lodgings and other transient accommodations and locations.
The meeting begins in…
Plan to save Mainers $870+ million on energy bills advances
AUGUSTA - Efficiency Maine’s Board of Trustees recently voted unanimously to adopt a new three-year plan and budget, which the agency said…
Parker Laite Sr.: ‘You've got to be a friend, to have a friend’
CAMDEN — Family and friends of Charles Cawley, co-founder of MBNA, philanthropist and Camden resident, are mourning his death Wednesday morning.
Cawley, 75, died Nov. 18 at his home in…
Soon, a decision will be formed as to whether or not to open the Gulf of Maine’s shrimp fishery.
The decision to open or…
Honorees included Harris J. (Pete) Bixler of Bay Chamber Concerts
PORTLAND – On Thursday, Nov. 5, Camden National Bank joined leaders and representatives from Maine’s nonprofit community for the 2015…
solution to bird problem offered
ROCKLAND — Birds need not fear the partially-reflective glass façade of the Starfire five-story art management building, slated for groundbreaking in April 2016 and completion in…
University of Maine at Orono
ORONO, Maine — When Samuel Belknap, Ph.D. anthropology and environmental policy student at the University of Maine, heard an increasing…
This past week in Rockland...the harbor master spent time tracking down the owner of a boat left for several days at Snow Marine Park. Turns out, the owner was in jail. Fire/EMS responded to a 3 a…
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
The federal Department of Energy has granted Maine $3.7 million to further research and development offshore wind…
Opened this week in former Oh Bento space
ROCKLAND — It’s been a little more than a year-and-a-half since Tom Pham rolled out his bright yellow food truck, Pho Sizzle, in Buoy Park in Rockland. Whipping up authentic Vietnamese cuisine…
ROCKLAND — Three domesticated chickens adequately provide enough eggs to support a family, and those chickens are sold in packs of six, according to recent research provided by the Rockland…
ROCKLAND — The ordinances for Transient Residential Accommodations, aka AirBnB, will continue to be hashed out in Rockland. Yet, following a public hearing during the…
Winner gets passage for two on any 2016 season trip
ROCKLAND — What does a captain do, when the schooner he’s been restoring for more than a year needs an anchor windlass, standing rigging and deck hardware to finally return to active to service as…
Business and building in exchange for well-written essay
HOULTON — The winner of an essay contest will become the new owner of the historic Temple Theatre in Houlton. …
Minimum Wage Ballot Campaign
On Wednesday, the campaign to place a minimum wage increase on the ballot in 2016 announced that it had collected more than 30,000…
Department of Marine Resources
AUGUSTA – Rep. Pinny Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, is appealing the Legislative Council’s rejection of her bill to give the commissioner of the…
BELFAST — The former Crosby School in Belfast will be up for auction December 2 at the school. Open houses are scheduled for November 12 and 18 between 10 a.m. and 11…
ROCKLAND –- The women behind Maine Country Home, a specialty paint and refinished furniture shop, were in such a hurry to commence operation…
Vessel upright, stern buried in approximately 30 feet of sediment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Updated Nov. 3) The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday afternoon said that searches by a U.S. Navy remote…
CARRER AND COLLEGE DAY
The Oceanside Career Day will be held Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at Oceanside High School East in Rockland from 8-11 a.m.
As…
Rockland Community Sailors
Rockland Community Sailors take first place at the Becton Cup women's State Championship regatta in Castine last week. …
ROCKLAND CITY NEWS
Prior to Oct. 30, Rockland Public Library received a $500 donation from a patron who is moving from Rockland to be closer to family. Most of the harbor floats have been secured for the winter.…
Near Jameson Point
The Coast Guard is responding to the grounding of a vessel in…
Imagine having a job in Maine, where your office is a boat and you are your own boss. And you don’t have to haul lobsters. …
The breezes continue Thursday afternoon, albeit much milder than the winds that blew through the Midcoast overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning, and only pockets of customers in Waldo and…
Clamming has been good in Wiscasset this year, very good.
A few years ago, one or one and a half bushels would have been a digger’s likely take from a tide, Wiscasset Shellfish Committee…
Camden National Corporation
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Bring in your bird feeders, trash cans, kids’ toys
GRAY — The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a gale warning for the coast, from Stonington to Port Clyde, out 25 nautical miles into Penobscot Bay. The gale warning is in effect from 8 p…
Local woman spearheaded two-year fundraising campaign to make it happen
Maine has just received a new powerful tool to combat child pornography and trafficking — a new mobile forensic laboratory for the state’s Computer Crimes Unit, thanks in large part to former…
Every Friday during the season Hope Orchards grinds apples into raw cider
HOPE — At the beginning of November, Hope Orchards’ cider press will come to a grinding halt—literally. From the last week of September to the first week of November, every Friday is cider-…
ROCKLAND — A week after RSU 13 school board candidate Esther “Tess” Kilgour of Rockland withdrew from her electoral race, Rockland City Council candidate Deborah O. Atwell has also …
